Legal Lameness
If you watch MSNBC you’ve likely seen:
· Andrew Weissmann
· Mary McCord
· Barbara McQuade
· Joyce Vance
· Neal Katyal
· Glenn Kirschner
· Harry Litman
And attorneys who work on air for NBCUniversal, including:
· Ari Melber
· Katie Phang
· Lisa Rubin
That’s a lot of legal firepower. Arguably — at least given the venue — liberal legal firepower.
On occasion Nicolle Wallace brings on Judge J. Michael Luttig, who was once a bastion of conservative jurisprudence, and who still would be were the term “conservative” not wholly debased in the Age of Trump.
But what have we learned from all of the above?
Apparently, not much.
Whether it was the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. the United States or Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the federal indictment against Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, all of the above, to one degree or another, seem to have been completely flummoxed.
Jeanine Pirro over on Fox has been more correct.
Hell, Judge Judy would be, too.
Here’s the thing: the right has been more adept at throwing stuff at the wall—and we know what much of that “stuff” is — and seeing what sticks.
The aforementioned all harumph at these activities.
And yet somehow these legal “absurdities” end up otherwise. The gavel comes down and the liberals are out of luck.
Michelle Obama’s “When they go low, we go high” seems to be the abiding principle of the liberals.
But sometimes keeping the hem of your skirt doesn’t work in real life.
There seems to be a notion that all of the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed before the liberals do something. Yet meanwhile the folks on the right file what might seem to be crazy suits and end up getting a high success rate.
As legendary hockey player Wayne Gretzky put it, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take,” and liberals are far too keen on doing things that are not allowing them to score goals.
The other team is trouncing them.
Unless liberals get in the game, elbows and all, they should prepare themselves for obsolescent opinionating.
Macaulay is pundit-at-large at The Hustings/https://thehustings.news